FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) Paeroa, Friday.

Te Aroha News, Volume V, Issue 226, 29 October 1887, Page 2

FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) Paeroa, Friday.

A Bpeciui mooting of the County Council was held in the Council Chambers, Paeroa, un Saturday last, when the folio »ring members wore present, namely, Crs Cock, (chairman), Moore, Corbott, Walsu und Nioholls. The first business denlt with waa tho appointment of the undernoted peisons to ■<ct us Returning Officers for the different Riding* during the coming county elec- ! lionH, namely, Pa^ro.i Hiding, Mr Kenny ; i W.iitek.imi Riding, Mr Peacock ; Waitoa Hiding, Mr McCombie ; Karangahake 1 Hiding, M»" Littlejohn. A communication wasr«ad from the Te \roha Town Board, enclosing copy of a resolution passed at a public mating held nt To Arolui on the 11th in&t, for the pur pose of protesting again->t the Thames If ulmur Hoard ln\ing control of the up toiintry rivers, and fnrthei ft.iting that tli^ Board would unite with Olnueimui County (Jouncil in cndeavouiing to have tho County Councils concerned, app«»inte(i -.ok* (.o[iHcr%'.iters. On thi- motion of th<) Chairman, seconded |iy Cr CorU'tt, it whs resolved tl at the deik bo instiiK-tod to write to Te \roh.i Town Boaid thanking the meuibors fur their c population, and informing them thai a iik»c tinir will whoitly bp convened it P.i'^ioH for the purpoHe of determining the step* necfssuiy to bo taken iv ordei to «<eetuv tho desirod end, and that tho Board ho invited to send u d. -legate. This ww all the hn-iiiU'Kß. The ThamwH Ilaibour Board have now irot h laigo stiff of h^nl< employed in fffectiiis' lep.iirn to the County wharf, whioh ha« been in a v<-iy bad state ever nince tho Innt big fre^h, »nd would not have hung together much longer in its erstwhile condition.

PAEROA. Thefmiorulof the lute Mr Samuel Rubrlcnwho died at the Thames Hospital on TiieyiliN List took place here yesterday, and wns atUsud.'d by miners and settlers from all pai ts of the district. Mr W. J. Elliott read the funeral service in a manner that was both eloquent and impressive.